P. v. Bradford CA2/2
In the early morning hours of August 30, 1979, Lynne Knight (Knight) was strangled with a homemade garrote and repeatedly stabbed with a kitchen knife. Thirty-one years later, Douglas Gordon Bradford (defendant) was charged with her murder. The case against defendant was entirely circumstantial, as there were no eyewitnesses to the killing, and no forensic evidence tied him to the crime scene. The jury found the circumstantial evidence compelling and convicted him of murder. In this appeal, defendant does not attack the sufficiency of the evidence. Instead, he challenges the trial court’s rulings admitting nearly every piece of circumstantial evidence presented to the jury and excluding evidence of two other suspects the police initially pursued but quickly eliminated. Defendant also argues that he was prejudiced by the prosecution’s delay in investigating and charging him, and asserts error with a single jury instruction. We conclude there was no prejudicial error, and affi
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